Here, Life expectancy is just 40 years oldand 21% of children do not survive their 5th birthday.

Malaria, malnutrition, HIV/AIDS and diarrhea are still a problem and Nema aims to combat these diseases by raising awareness in the communities and improving access to essential health services

Mucojo Health Centre

We are currently fundraising for the first phase of the upgrade; to develop a maternity wing. This will enable mothers to give birth in a safer, better equipped maternity wing and stay in the care of the nurses for longer. The impact for women and their newborn babies will be profound and, no doubt, many more lives will be saved.

Donate: Maternity Ward

Ambulances

We currently run the only two ambulances in our region, servicing a population of 36,000 people. These ambulances are literally a lifeline for our partner villages and take people daily to to the local clinic, the majority of whom are women in labour.

Donate: Ambulances

Each motorbike ambulance costs £12 a day to operate.

Malaria

Although a preventable and treatable disease, malaria remains the number one child killer in Mozambique. 125 children die from malaria every day in Mozambique, giving the country one of the hightest child mortality rates in the world.

In response, Nema runs malaria workshops with all households to train families how to recognise and protect themselves from malaria. As part of the project, we also distribute insecticide-treated mosquito nets to vulnerable groups such as pregnant women and children under the age of five. To date, we have distributed almost 7,000 nets.

Donate: Malaria

A mosquito net and workshop for a mother with a child under 5 costs £10

Nutrition

Over 56% of people living in Cabo Delgado province are chronically malnourished. Malnourishment stunts children’s development and weakens defences against disease, making it a significant underlying cause of child mortality.

To combat malnutrition, Nema runs nutrition workshops with all families to help them to recognize the signs of malnutrition and seek treatment. Our agricultural technician also helps families to create small kitchen gardens where they can grow nutritious foods such as tomatoes, sweet potatoes and beans.

Improved Healthcare

From the support of Global Angels a Community Health Post was developed in Guludo village with the aim to relieve pressure on the two under-staffed and overcrowded existing health clinics.

Other Health Projects

• Maternal Health: providing health, emotional and financial support for pregnant women and new mothers• Orphaned and Vulnerable Children: providing vulnerable children with health, education, emotional and legal support• Hygiene & Sanitation Workshops: running family workshops to improve hygiene & sanitation practices in and around the house, and the construction of simple pit latrines.

HIV / AIDs

Every day 102 children are infected with HIV in Mozambique, and less than 3% will receive treatment. The majority of new infections occur in young people, with girls aged between 15 to 19 years three times more at risk than boys of the same age.

Nema runs a series of HIV projects. These include a:• HIV & Football project aimed at teenagers from 12 villages, which teaches them how to recognise, prevent and treat HIV/AIDS and how to deal with stigma• Local HIV Theatre Group who tour all villages putting on highly popular HIV-oriented plays• Project that provides families living with HIV with health, emotional and financial support• HIV Workshops that train families how to protect themselves from HIV, recognise the symptoms and seek treatment• We also show HIV films in the villages and distribute subsidised and affordable condoms via local shopkeepers.

Global Angels made the following film of the health projects they have supported.